Improvement in whip-sockets



L. D. B'ENNER.v

` Whip-Sockets.

No. 137,880. `PatentedApriiifmm.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LORENZO n. BENNEE, or BosroN,-1\rAssAoEUsErrs.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-SOCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,880, dated Aplil 15, 1873; application led February 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LORENZO D. BENNER, of Boston, in the county of Suolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improved WhipSocket; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawing which accompanies and forms part of this specification, is a description ofmy invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

Whip-sockets, as usually constructed, serve simply to receive whip handles, but Without securing them against loose movements within the sockets, and against liability to be removed or stolen. My invention has reference to a construction by which the whip is held in erect and stationary position within the socket, and bywhich it is not `only so held, but may be fastened within the socket so as to be immovable therefrom except by unlocking the fastening devices. The invention consists in a whip-socket having such construction.

The drawing represents a construction embodying my'invention.

Figure 1 shows a top view of the socket. Fig. 2 is a bottom View, the bottom plate being removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line a: x. Fig. 4 is a similar section on the line y y.

a denotes the socket or holder; b, the bottom plate thereof. Pivoted to one side of the socket, and extending through the socket, is a bent bar, c, at the top of which is a lip or flange, d. To the bottom of this bar is pivoted one end of a latch, e, whose opposite end extends through a hole, f, in the socket, this latch having notches g, by which the latch can be held in position.

The latch is pressed outward by a spring, h, and, when free to be thus thrown out, the llange d is thrown against the surface of the socket. Opposite to the lange d is a fixed flange, i. When the whip-handle :is dropped into the socket between the iianges d i the bottom of the handle strikes the bar c below the pivot la, throwing the bottom of the bar back and the flange d forward against the whip-handle. By this action the latch or catch e is' drawn inward, and, by its weight, or the stress of a suitable spring, the latch is pressed down so that one of its notches will catch upon the tube below the slot. The whip will then be secured by the flanges di, and will be held in erect position by their impingement or their presence and the impingement of the bar c below the socket, the bar, preferably, press.

ing the whip-handle up to a projection from the inside of the tube.

To fasten the latch so that the whip cannot be removed without the use of a key a slide bolt, l, may be used; this bolt, by action of a key, m, turned in one direction, being shut over the latch, so that the latch cannot be raised to free its notch, and, therefore, the bar is secured, and, by its securement, holds the whip-handle 'within the socket. By turning the key in the opposite direction the bolt is thrown back, and the latch may then be rc= leased and the whip removed.

I claim- 1. A metal whip-socket, having the pivoted bar c with its llange d, the notched latch e being jointed to said bar, and securing it and through it the whip in position, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the pivoted bar c and its latch e, the bolt l, operated by a key, m, or other device, substantially as shown and ded scribed.

LORENZO D. BE'NNER.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS GOULD, M. W. FRorHINGElJ/r. 

